To be clear, quartz is not just used in one application of chip fabrication either. The video portrays it as just for ingots, but while it is essential for ingots it's needed for way more besides.
It's used in photolithography(for most of the substrates of a chip too, so multiple layers), diffusion, crucibilization, and more. It is absolutely essential for chip making and without it the entire concept of microchips dissolves.
If only we weren’t already living under global governance our American interests might be taken seriously, buuuut, we are, so don’t expect this government to do things that make sense unless you’re looking at every policy move from the perspective of “what would be best for JWO right now”, then things like building digital gulags and world war make a lot more sense.
I'm a pretty skeptical of the claim that it can't be replaced, rather than it just being only lightly incentivized to develop high throughput silica purifying techniques whilst the mine is active.
I'm more inclined to believe that something like this would get the kind of push needed to go to completion if the Spruce Pine material was suddenly out of the equation.
To what decimal place is it pure? Solar panels are pure to the ninth decimal place, while the silicon wafers that make up microchips are pure to the eleventh decimal place.
Always expect someone to do the impossible. Or for a similar pure quartz deposit to be discovered. What ASML pulled off with their most advanced photolithography machines was always deemed impossible for quite a while.
You are right, and EUV is fucking insane when you actually look up how it works (gonna post a video about it later, probably in a bigger post with more videos explaining how modern hardware is physically made).
There needs to be a motivation to find another quartz deposit, is my current belief. As the primary reason we even have Spruce Pine, and most of the North American quartz mines that aren't Spruce Pine is because the one in France became unavailable after the Nazis invaded
Quartz, but autocorrect happened
That's quiet a small mein. It is no small feet to supply the world out of won qwort mine. I wunder what the minors get payed to mein.
To be clear, quartz is not just used in one application of chip fabrication either. The video portrays it as just for ingots, but while it is essential for ingots it's needed for way more besides.
It's used in photolithography(for most of the substrates of a chip too, so multiple layers), diffusion, crucibilization, and more. It is absolutely essential for chip making and without it the entire concept of microchips dissolves.
So israel can weaponize it basically
If only we weren’t already living under global governance our American interests might be taken seriously, buuuut, we are, so don’t expect this government to do things that make sense unless you’re looking at every policy move from the perspective of “what would be best for JWO right now”, then things like building digital gulags and world war make a lot more sense.
I'm a pretty skeptical of the claim that it can't be replaced, rather than it just being only lightly incentivized to develop high throughput silica purifying techniques whilst the mine is active.
I'm more inclined to believe that something like this would get the kind of push needed to go to completion if the Spruce Pine material was suddenly out of the equation.
To what decimal place is it pure? Solar panels are pure to the ninth decimal place, while the silicon wafers that make up microchips are pure to the eleventh decimal place.
Always expect someone to do the impossible. Or for a similar pure quartz deposit to be discovered. What ASML pulled off with their most advanced photolithography machines was always deemed impossible for quite a while.
You are right, and EUV is fucking insane when you actually look up how it works (gonna post a video about it later, probably in a bigger post with more videos explaining how modern hardware is physically made).
There needs to be a motivation to find another quartz deposit, is my current belief. As the primary reason we even have Spruce Pine, and most of the North American quartz mines that aren't Spruce Pine is because the one in France became unavailable after the Nazis invaded